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• Institute of Medicine (IOM)
– HIT plays an imperative role in saving healthcare cost, improving patient outcomes,
decreasing occurrence of medication errors, and refining healthcare process measures
across diverse settings
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
– use of information and communication technology in healthcare to support the delivery of
patient or population care or to support patient self-management
– Synonym
• electronic health records (EHR) and
• EHR components
– computerized provider order entry (CPOE) or
– clinical decision support system (CDSS)
– Generalized Health IT also includes
• administrative or practice management systems
• automated dispensing systems
• laboratory information systems, and
• diagnostic imaging systems
• Nowadays, Health IT has become an integral part of healthcare and has been widely applied to
collect, transmit, process, display, and store patient data
What is Health IT